Friday, January 13, 2012 at 1:28PM January 13, 2012 — The first Literary Death Match of 2012 was an instant classic, as our triumphant return to the Elbo Room saw Alia Volz topple Seth Harwood at Literary Author Jumble by a hugely narrow margin of 51.8 seconds.
Friday, October 14, 2011 at 1:49AM October 13, 2011 — The special Litquake edition of the Literary Death Match stunned the standing-room-only crowd when Simon Rich's bag of silly string outweighed John Butler's by an axis-shifting 2.5 grams! That's less than a tenth of an ounce, in case you failed the Metric System in high school.
Friday, September 9, 2011 at 8:24PM September 10, 2011 — In an epic duel of fill-in-the-blanks poetry, erudite Kevin Spenst conquered feisty Dina Del Bucchia, to become Vancouver’s second-ever Literary Death Match Champion! When asked how it felt to wear the crown, Spenst could only sob with pride.
Wednesday, September 7, 2011 at 8:11PM September 8, 2011 — In a northwest literary love-in, it was Live Wire's Scott Poole's elastic mouth that led him to a narrow and momentous victory over fellow co-finalist Fiona McCann in a battle to consume giant marshmallows while pronouncing giant words. It will go down in PDX literary history as the sweetest duel of all time.
Friday, June 10, 2011 at 10:25AM June 10, 2011 — Literary Death Match's June Swoon return to San Francisco finished with a burning climax when Belo Cipriani beat out Lisa Catherine Harper in reconfigured version of "Pin the Tail on the Donkey." Leave it to LDM to violate even this most cherished of kids' party games.
Friday, April 8, 2011 at 3:32PM In a historic finale that Literary Death Match historians will debate for centuries to come, poets Monica Youn (Ignatz) and Dean Rader (Works & Days) simultaneously pieced together and recognized the famous face of Hunter S. Thompson, resulting in the first tie ever in San Francisco LDM history.
Saturday, February 5, 2011 at 10:33AM February 11, 2011 — On a classic night in Literary Death Match History the finish came when Monica Nolan raced to the end of a passage from Candide — her mouth full of marshmallows — as she out mushmouthed co-finalist and poet Geoff Bouvier to win literature's grandest prize.
Friday, November 26, 2010 at 3:24PM December 10, 2010 — Mad-libbed, choral renditions of holiday favorites “Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer” and “Frosty the Snowman” decided the unprecedented ending of LDM SF's Holiday Bloodbath Special. In the spirit of the season, Jamie DeWolf plowed the competition for all gingers great and small, pimples and all!
Friday, November 12, 2010 at 5:12PM In a rousing finale that transferred the entire Elbo Room audience from floor to stage, novelist Kwei Quartey gathered a vast literary social network of novelists, beating out short story master Thaisa Frank.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010 at 2:49PM October 6, 2010 — The kick off for the LDM100 tour at San Francisco's Litquake was nothing short of spectacular, with a wild centurial finale that saw Jason Bayani outduel fellow finalist Kari Kiernan 11-6 in a 100-second book stack competition that changed the face of literature forever.
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